PURE ASAFOETIDA GUM RESIN
Appearance/Texture: Authentic pure resin is often yellow-brown, with a smooth, shiny, and slightly soft or gummy texture
Product Details
Characteristics & Benefits
Appearance/Texture: Authentic pure resin is often yellow-brown, with a smooth, shiny, and slightly soft or gummy texture.
Scent: Possesses an intensely pungent, strong garlic-onion aroma, which is characteristic of the resin.
Culinary Use: Often used in Indian cuisine to aid digestion; it is best, when used as raw resin, to be heated or fried first to mellow the flavor.
Medicinal Properties: Known to be an antispasmodic, carminative, and laxative, used for relieving bloating, gas, and digestive discomfort.
Purity Test: Pure resin will burn like camphor when ignited, unlike adulterated versions.